Steven Gerrard volition miss Aston Villa'southward next 2 matches after testing positive for Covid-19.

The Villa boss is forced to stay abroad from the habitation clash vs Chelsea on Boxing Day also as the trip to Leeds United on December 28.

The club said in a argument: "Aston Villa tin can confirm head coach Steven Gerrard will be unable to attend our next ii Premier League matches with Chelsea and Leeds United as he will be isolating after testing positive for Covid-nineteen."

Villa'southward terminal match against Burnley was among the list of fixtures to fall victim to the contempo rise in Covid cases and was postponed by the Premier League.

1 saving grace for Gerrard could be that the match vs Leeds could also be called off given their trip to Liverpool has been axed due to a Covid outbreak in their squad.

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Gerrard has been song about the Covid crisis Villa have been battling recently, and explained how it was impacting his players.

"We had a state of affairs at the weekend where one of the players was reluctant to go out of his car because he had some symptoms and he'southward got a immature family unit, and you can totally understand his view in his situation," Gerrard said.

"This is a guy who'due south got a young family, it is Christmas time, and that's the situation anybody is in. No one wants to get this virus. Everyone wants to protect their own families. This is our job and your priority is always going to be your family, of course it is.

"Thankfully he was tested after and he didn't have a situation, but that player would not have been bachelor for me on the day, and these are the petty situations that people don't encounter. We've got a major responsibility to listen to the players and bargain with every state of affairs as it comes your fashion."

The Premier League moved to postpone iii fixtures on Battle Solar day - Liverpool vs Leeds, Wolves vs Watford and Burnley vs Everton - due to Covid cases at some of the clubs involved.

A meeting was held on Thursday between league chiefs and managers of the xx peak-flight clubs, but appears to have made petty progress in easing recent tensions.

Tottenham managing director Antonio Conte agreed it was a waste of time, adding: "It was [similar talking to] a wall and for this reason I also prefer to non get into it.

Antonio Conte was not impressed by the latest Premier League meeting regarding Covid (

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"If I have to be honest, information technology was a meeting that we tried to speak and some coaches tried to speak, to ask about solutions just I think everything was decided," he added

"Considering when you have a wall in front end of you lot, y'all can speak and ask what you want but every decision was taken."

That was a view shared by former Villa boss Dean Smith, now at Norwich, who said: "We went into a [Premier League managers'] meeting yesterday where the decisions had already been made, so I retrieve we had already missed the boat in terms of determination making.

"They [the Premier League] decided the flavor would continue as was and we accept got to fulfil fixtures now, so we take to cope as all-time we can."

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